HIRAM, Ohio, April 9, 2024 — Luxium Solutions, a provider of advanced engineered materials and solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Inrad Optics, Inc., a provider of advanced optical components, assemblies and systems, in an all-cash transaction that values Inrad Optics at approximately $19 million, including assumed debt. According to Luxium CEO Michel Cahill, the acquisition will provide complementary additions to Luxium's portfolio. For Inrad, CEO Amy Eskilson believes the merger will

DRESDEN, Germany, March 25, 2024 — A research project undertaken by the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to overhaul an analytical tool used to evaluate laser fusion. The work is being funded by the European Union...

BILLERICA, Mass., Feb. 7, 2024 — In separate transactions, Bruker has acquired preclinical in-vivo optical imaging systems company Spectral Instruments Imaging (SII), and Nanophoton Corporation, a provider of advanced research Raman microscopy systems. Financial terms of the...

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4, 2023 — A compact particle accelerator developed by the University of Texas at Austin, several national laboratories, and the Texas-based company TAU Systems has produced an electron beam with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). The...

MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 21, 2023 — SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reported that the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) has produced its first x-rays following a $1.1 billion upgrade. The improvements, more than 10 years in the making, allow the...

LEMONT, Ill., May 4, 2023 — Argonne National Laboratories’ Advanced Photon Source (APS) has begun its long-scheduled comprehensive upgrade. The process will see the electron storage ring at the heart of the facility removed and replaced with a state-of-the-art storage...

BERLIN, April 17, 2023 — Researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) used x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), a technique that can be used to measure the spin and charge dynamics in multi-elemental magnetic materials, in a laser laboratory setting and performed...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 29, 2023 — Sandia National Laboratories has partnered with Albuquerque, N.M.-based startup Advanced hCMOS Systems to commercialize ultrafast x-ray imaging technology invented at the labs and used extensively in fusion research. The collaboration aims to fasten...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 13, 2022 — Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved fusion ignition, marking a groundbreaking advance in the decades-long...

DRESDEN, Germany, Dec. 7, 2022 — The extremely intense light pulses generated by free-electron lasers (FELs) are versatile tools in research. In the x-ray range, they can be used to analyze the details of atomic structures of a wide variety of materials, and to follow fundamental...

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 16, 2022 — The Food and Drug Administration has cleared a photon-counting detector (PCD)-based CT system for clinical use. The system, which has been under development by a team at the Mayo Clinic for a decade, offers an alternative approach to the conversion...

MENLO PARK, Calif., May 12, 2022 — The superconducting particle accelerator, an upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) x-ray free-electron laser at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been cooled to a temperature of −456...

VILLIGEN, Switzerland, May 4, 2022 — Scientists at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed an achromatic lens for x-rays that allows x-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point even if they have different wavelengths. The lens will make it easier to study nanostructures with...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 4, 2022 — Researchers at MIT have shown that scintillators, materials that emit light when bombarded with high-energy particles or x-rays, can be improved by at least tenfold, and potentially even a hundredfold, by modifying their surface to create nanoscale...

STORRS, Conn., Feb. 20, 2020 — Guoan Zheng, a University of Connecticut (UConn) professor of biomedical engineering, has published his findings on a successful demonstration of a lensless on-chip microscopy platform in Lab on a Chip. Zheng suggests his platform eliminates several...

LUND, Sweden, Feb. 3, 2020 — A team at Lund University observed and quantified an atomizing spray by recording x-ray absorption while using two-photon laser-induced fluorescence imaging. High-contrast fluorescence images provided fine details of the spray structure and...

LEMONT, Ill., Aug. 5, 2019 — Argonne National Laboratory has received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the next phase of the $815 million upgrade of the Advance Photon Source (APS). The Critical Decision 3 milestone approves the project’s final design for...

OBERKOCHEN, Germany, Jan. 11, 2018 — The Zeiss Group will acquire a majority stake in Bosello High Technology SRL, a provider of industrial x-ray solutions, to strengthen its research and quality technology segment. For Zeiss, Bosello’s tailor-made solutions are a further step in...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 26, 2016 — Imaging technology developer Sydor Instruments has been awarded a $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Sydor will use this grant in collaboration with Cornell to further advance the...

VIENNA, Nov. 13, 2014 — Studying time-dependent incidents on short timescales requires femtosecond, high-flux x-ray pulses. A new high-intensity mid-infrared laser system accomplishes this challenging feat.

RICHLAND, Wash., and LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2014 — A protein's shape is key to understanding how it causes disease or toxicity. Traditionally, capturing quality x-ray snapshots of a protein has required as many as 1 billion copies of the same protein, stacked into a neat crystal. This is no longer...

BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 17, 2014 — The hidden junctures where different layers of materials meet could become less mysterious under a new spectroscopy technique developed using the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 25 — A novel method generates research-quality x-rays using a "tabletop" laser, making such light sources more practical for advanced research. High-quality x-rays — needed for applications ranging from analyzing the structure of matter to advanced...

ANDOVER AND BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 29, 2013 — Royal Philips said Monday it is expanding its portfolio of advanced live-image guidance products for interventional cardiology procedures by signing a resale agreement with Burlington-based medical device maker Infraredx Inc. Coronary artery disease...